Sunday, September 21, 2014

TailaoshanMountain
located in Fuding, Fujian province is a place famous for its
scenery or historical relics. An ancient Chinese legend told during the time of
Xuanyuan and Huangdi Emperors' reign, a celestial being of Taoists named as
Rong Chengzi used to inhabit here and during the time of Yao Emperor‘s reign ,
there was a young girl who spent all day growing orchid and tea trees here
and teach local people how to make
"White Tea". The White Tea she made was so delicious, fragrant and
amazing that people who drank it all the time finally became celestial beings. The
young girl lived so long time, becoming to be mother, grandmother and
grand-grand-mother, before she grew out wings and became to be a goddess. The
local people respected her very much and called her "Taimu"(meaning
grand-grand-mother) and called the mountain she lived as "TaimushanMountain". According to the record
of "Pan Tao Ji", a book written
by Wang Lie in Han Dynasty, Emperor Han Wudi once ordered Dong Fangsuo, a his confidential
secretary to visit all the famous mountain in the world. Dong Fangsuo thought
among all the famous mountains he visited, Taimushan Mountain is rich in
distinctive nimbus and beauty so he called it "the First Mountain of the
World" and replace "Mu"(meaning mother) with
"Lao"(meaning grandmother) to show respect for the past person. It is
common that "famous mountain produce famous teas". TailaoshanMountain
is the same. The Fuding area of FujianProvince where TailaoshanMountain
is located is well known as "the hometown of Chinese White Tea" now. WhiteTea was initially brought into being here and now still mainly produced in
Fuding area.

In 1796(the
first year of the reign of Qing Emperor Jiangqing, the tea businessmen of
Fuding realized the potential business opportunity of White Tea so they learned
the skills of making white tea from the people of Tailaoshan Mountain and
succeeded in making "native needle" with the local tea cultivar
called "Caicha". It was seen by Chinese tea industry as the sign of
the birth of modern White Tea. In 1857(the 6th year of the reign of Qing Emperor
Xianfeng), a dutiful son thought to be given direction from Tailao (The Goddess
of the Tailaoshan Mountain) found a tea seedling neighboring to an ancient tea
tree called Lu Yueya(literally Green Snow Bud) around the Hongxue cave of
Tailaoshan Mountain and he uprooted and replanted the tea seedling in the area
outside Tailaoshan Mountain. Tea makers of Fuding successfully made Baihao Silver Needle White tea with buds
harvested from the tea trees cultivated from the tea seedling. Now, the Lu
Xueya tea seedling seen as a fine breed and named as "Fuding Dabaicha Cultivar"
has been now propagated by stem cuttings in more than 10 provinces of China since
1960s.

Sunday, September 14, 2014

Drinking fine tea
over delicious snacks is a supreme treat for Guangdong people. They like to do in teahouses during the morning. Locally known as "one cup of tea and two
snacks," the morning tea is regarded by the Guangdong people as "a joy of
life."

Teahouses in Guangdong serve various kinds of teas and famous
Guangdong-style snacks. The tea includes black tea, green tea, Oolong tea,
jasmine tea and Liubao tea. The snacks include steamed buns stuffed with diced
grilled pork, diced pig fat and sugar, minced pork, shrimp or crab meat,
steamed dumplings with the dough gathered at the top with various fillings; and
all kinds of flaky cakes. Before going to work in the morning, drinking a
fragrant pot of tea and relishing the delicious snacks in a teahouse, proves a
most relaxing experience. In recent years, with business burgeoning in GuangdongProvince, people like holding business
talks in teahouses. In HainanProvince, the practice
has reached the extent that you can not enter the business circles without
frequenting a teahouse. Drinking tea for business purposes has become a
peculiar way of life in Guangdong and Hainan provinces, although it is far removed from the
Chinese traditional purpose of tasting tea.

Unlike those in Jiangsu
and Zhejiang provinces, and in northern provinces, Guangdong teahouses provide breakfast for
customers. Called "morning tea" by Guangdong people, it evinces the importance
of tea at breakfast. Today Guangdong-style morning tea has gone beyond Guangdong and Hainan provinces and found its way into
large hotels in Beijing, Tianjin
and Shanghai, although patrons do not number as
high as those in Guangdong.

About Me

I was born in Huangshan, Anhui, China where is well known for producing famous teas such as Huangshan Maofeng, Taiping Houkui and Keemun Black tea. I drank and fell in love with tea when I was a boy. Now for years, my love and passion with tea goes on.

Now having been in tea industry for up to 10 years, I acquired abundant experience and knowledge of tea and tea market. I enjoyed what I am now doing, dedicated in promoting Chinese tea and tea culture and wish more and more people around the world fall in love with tea, benifited and get happiness from tea. That is my great pleasure.